You can find it if you look
You can lose it just as soon
You can catch if you hustle
You can watch it run from you
You can grab it if you try
You can blow it just as quick
You can grip it if you work
You can wave as it’s leaving

Things you think you had a grip on
Things you should’ve secured with glue
Things reduced to pulp and dust
Things mashed down and put through

You can pull it from the tree
You can fall and break your leg
You can heal and try again
You can fail and get stepped on
You can drink from the pool
You can choke and die
You can have your stomach pumped
You can vomit up your life

Things you think you had a grip on
Things you should’ve secured with glue
Things reduced to pulp and dust
Things mashed down and put through
Detritus and debris
Specks and chunks